In the old days, it was customary for a gentleman to serenade his beloved.
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Serenade
//ˌsɛɹəˈneɪd//
Synonyms for "serenade" (114 found)
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44 translations across 28 languages.
Breton
1 entries- nozkan noun (love song)
Bulgarian
2 entries- серенада noun (love song)
- правя серенада verb (serenade)
Catalan
1 entries- serenata noun (love song)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 小夜曲 noun (love song)
Czech
1 entries- serenáda noun (love song)
Danish
1 entries- serenade noun (love song)
Dutch
2 entries- serenade noun (love song)
- serenade noun (instrumental composition)
Esperanto
1 entries- serenado noun (love song)
Faroese
1 entries- aftansongur noun (love song)
Finnish
2 entries- serenadi noun (love song)
- esittää serenadi verb (serenade)
French
2 entries- sérénade noun (love song)
- sérénader verb (serenade)
Galician
1 entries- serenata noun (love song)
German
3 entries- Serenade noun (love song)
- Serenade noun (instrumental composition)
- Ständchen noun (instrumental composition)
Hebrew
1 entries- סֶרֶנָדָה noun (love song)
Italian
1 entries- serenata noun (love song)
Japanese
4 entries- セレナーデ noun (love song)
- セレナード noun (love song)
- 夜曲 noun (love song)
- 小夜曲 noun (love song)
Korean
1 entries- 세레나데 noun (love song)
Latin
1 entries- occentō verb (serenade)
Macedonian
1 entries- серена́да noun (love song)
Polish
2 entries- serenada noun (love song)
- serenada noun (instrumental composition)
Portuguese
1 entries- serenata noun (love song)
Romanian
2 entries- serenadă noun (love song)
- a cânta o serenadă verb (serenade)
Russian
1 entries- серена́да noun (love song)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- podoknica noun (love song)
- serenada noun (love song)
- подокница noun (love song)
- серенада noun (love song)
Spanish
3 entries- serenata noun (love song)
- dar serenata verb (serenade)
- serenatear verb (serenade)
Tagalog
1 entries- harana noun (love song)
Thai
1 entries- เซเรเนด noun (love song)
Welsh
1 entries- nosgan noun (love song)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Laos' teen pop idol, Alexandra Bounxouei, returns to serenade our audience with her not-yet-released new songs, courtesy of her musician father, Mr. Bounthavisay Bounxouei, who made a copy of the songs and gave it to VOA.
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From me to thee glad serenades, / Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, / And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, / And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.
Source: wiktionary
A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade / Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
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